2010 Team RadioShack season

The 2010 season for Team RadioShack, its first, began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. Team RadioShack rode in 2010 a UCI ProTour team, and was thus automatically invited to and obligated to send a squad to every ProTour event.

2010 Team RadioShack season
Manager Johan Bruyneel
One-day victories 1
Stage race overall victories 3
Stage race stage victories 8
Next season

Much of the team joined after having competed as members of the Astana team from 2009, including team leaders Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, and Andreas Klöden, and team manager Johan Bruyneel. Many riders followed them, including all of Astana's 2009 Tour de France squad with the exception of champion Alberto Contador. The formation of the team was announced days after Alexander Vinokourov returned to Astana from suspension with new financial backers joining him – backers who favored Vinokourov and Contador over Bruyneel and Armstrong. The team also includes an assortment of riders who were members of other ProTour teams in 2009.

2010 roster

Ages as of January 1, 2010

Rider Date of birth
 Lance Armstrong (USA) (1971-09-18)September 18, 1971 (aged 38)
 Fumiyuki Beppu (JPN) (1983-04-10)April 10, 1983 (aged 26)
 Sam Bewley (NZL) (1987-07-22)July 22, 1987 (aged 22)
 Janez Brajkovič (SLO) (1983-12-18)December 18, 1983 (aged 26)
 Matthew Busche (USA) (1985-05-09)May 9, 1985 (aged 24)
 Ben Hermans (BEL) (1986-06-08)June 8, 1986 (aged 23)
 Chris Horner (USA) (1971-11-10)November 10, 1971 (aged 38)
 Andreas Klöden (GER) (1975-06-22)June 22, 1975 (aged 34)
 Daryl Impey (RSA) (1984-12-06)December 6, 1984 (aged 25)
 Markel Irizar (ESP) (1980-02-05)February 5, 1980 (aged 29)
 Levi Leipheimer (USA) (1973-10-23)October 23, 1973 (aged 36)
 Geoffroy Lequatre (FRA) (1981-06-30)June 30, 1981 (aged 28)
 Fuyu Li (CHN) (1978-05-09)May 9, 1978 (aged 31)
 Tiago Machado (POR) (1985-10-18)October 18, 1985 (aged 24)
Rider Date of birth
 Jason McCartney (USA) (1973-09-03)September 3, 1973 (aged 36)
 Dmitriy Muravyev (KAZ) (1979-11-02)November 2, 1979 (aged 30)
 Sérgio Paulinho (POR) (1980-03-26)March 26, 1980 (aged 29)
 Yaroslav Popovych (UKR) (1980-01-04)January 4, 1980 (aged 29)
 Grégory Rast (SUI) (1980-01-17)January 17, 1980 (aged 29)
 Sébastien Rosseler (BEL) (1981-07-15)July 15, 1981 (aged 28)
 Ivan Rovny (RUS) (1987-09-30)September 30, 1987 (aged 22)
 José Luis Rubiera (ESP) (1973-01-27)January 27, 1973 (aged 36)
 Bjørn Selander (USA) (1988-01-28)January 28, 1988 (aged 21)
 Gert Steegmans (BEL) (1980-09-30)September 30, 1980 (aged 29)
 Tomas Vaitkus (LTU) (1982-02-04)February 4, 1982 (aged 27)
 Haimar Zubeldia (ESP) (1977-04-01)April 1, 1977 (aged 32)
Riders' 2009 teams

One-day races

Spring classics

Similar to the 2009 Astana team, Team RadioShack was not built for one-day races but rather for stage races. Its only win was earned in the Brabantse Pijl ("Brabant Arrow" in English) by Sébastien Rosseler.

Fall races

Levi Leipheimer won the Leadville Trail 100 MTB mountain bike race in August.

Stage races

Team RadioShack's first event in their history was the Tour Down Under. Armstrong and Bruyneel commented that they were eager to come away from the race with victories, likely with ace sprinter Steegmans, because the entire executive committee of RadioShack was in Australia to see the race in person.[1] Steegmans finished a close second behind eventual Tour winner André Greipel in the race's first stage,[2] but that was as close as the team came to any wins. Nonetheless, Bruyneel said he was satisfied with the team's performance.[3] In the Volta ao Algarve, Rosseler took the team's first-ever stage win, winning stage 4 from a breakaway.[4] Machado finished third overall in the event, Leipheimer finished fourth, and won its unique award for best Portuguese rider. The squad also won the teams classification.[5]

RadioShack had a decent year in stage races, although overall victories were rare. Through August, it had only three general classification victories: Chris Horner in the Tour of the Basque Country; Janez Brajkovič in the Critérium du Dauphiné; and Haimar Zubeldia in the Tour de l'Ain. However, four other riders had also finished on the podium: Lance Armstrong, second in the Tour de Suisse and third in the Tour de Luxembourg; Tiago Machado, third in the Volta ao Algarve; Levi Leipheimer, third in the Tour of California; and Matthew Busche, third in the Tour of Denmark. Leipheimer also won the Tour of the Gila, although technically the Team RadioShack riders in that race (despite wearing jerseys with "RadioShack" on the front) were riding for Armstrong's "Mellow Johnny's" team, and the Tour of Utah, in which he rode alone for Mellow Johnny's.

Grand Tours

Because the three Grand Tour events are not part of the UCI ProTour, teams must be invited to each of the events and may choose not to participate. Team RadioShack requested not to be invited to the Giro d'Italia, instead sending their best riders to the concurrent Tour of California. Though the team actively sought a place in the Vuelta a España, they were not one of the 22 teams chosen for participation in that race either.[6] They only participated in the Tour de France among the year's Grand Tours.

Tour de France

The 2010 RadioShack team in the Tour de France was almost identical to the 2009 Astana team, with seven of the nine riders. The only changes were Chris Horner, replacing Alberto Contador, who remained with Astana, and Janez Brajkovic, replacing Haimar Zubeldia, who was recovering from a broken wrist. Although the team once again won Best Team, its highest individual result came from Horner, who finished 10th.

Season victories
DateRaceCompetitionRiderCountryLocation
February 20Volta ao Algarve, Stage 4UCI Europe Tour Sébastien Rosseler (BEL) PortugalTavira
February 20Volta ao Algarve, Portuguese rider classificationUCI Europe Tour Tiago Machado (POR) Portugal
February 21Volta ao Algarve, Teams classificationUCI Europe Tour[N 1] Portugal
February 27Giro di Sardegna, Teams classificationUCI Europe Tour[N 2] Italy
March 28Critérium International, Youth classificationUCI Europe Tour Tiago Machado (POR) France
March 28Critérium International, Teams classificationUCI Europe Tour[N 3] France
April 7Circuit de la Sarthe, Stage 2BUCI Europe Tour Tiago Machado (POR) FranceAngers
April 10Tour of the Basque Country, Stage 6UCI ProTour Chris Horner (USA) SpainOrio
April 10Tour of the Basque Country, OverallUCI ProTour Chris Horner (USA) Spain
April 14Brabantse PijlUCI Europe Tour Sébastien Rosseler (BEL) BelgiumOverijse
April 18Vuelta a Castilla y León, Teams classificationUCI Europe Tour[N 4] Spain
May 2Tour de Romandie, Teams classificationUCI ProTour[N 5]  Switzerland
May 30Tour of Belgium, Stage 5UCI Europe Tour Ben Hermans (BEL) BelgiumHerstal
June 6Tour de Luxembourg, Teams classificationUCI Europe Tour[N 6] Luxembourg
June 9Critérium du Dauphiné, Stage 3UCI World Ranking Janez Brajkovič (SLO) FranceSorgues
June 13Critérium du Dauphiné, OverallUCI World Ranking Janez Brajkovič (SLO) France
July 11Tour of Austria, Teams classificationUCI Europe Tour[N 7] Austria
July 14Tour de France, Stage 10UCI World Ranking Sérgio Paulinho (POR) FranceGap
July 25Tour de France, Teams classificationUCI World Ranking[N 8] FranceBordeaux
August 10Tour de l'Ain, PrologueUCI Europe Tour Haimar Zubeldia (ESP) FranceAmberieu-En-Bugey
August 14Tour de l'Ain, OverallUCI Europe Tour Haimar Zubeldia (ESP) France
August 14Leadville Trail 100 MTBMountain bike event Levi Leipheimer (USA) United StatesLeadville, Colorado
August 27Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Stage 4UCI Europe Tour Markel Irizar (ESP) FranceVouillé

Footnotes
  1. The riders on the squad were Levi Leipheimer, Gert Steegmans, Tiago Machado, Andreas Klöden, Sébastien Rosseler, Grégory Rast, Sérgio Paulinho, and Tomas Vaitkus
  2. The riders on the squad were Ben Hermans, Chris Horner, Janez Brajkovič, Ivan Rovny, Geoffroy Lequatre, Dmitriy Muravyev, Matthew Busche, and Markel Irizar
  3. The riders on the squad were Tiago Machado, Chris Horner, Ben Hermans, Yaroslav Popovych, Lance Armstrong, Sérgio Paulinho, Matthew Busche, and Ivan Rovny
  4. The riders on the squad were Tiago Machado, Fumiyuki Beppu, Markel Irizar, Janez Brajkovič, José Luis Rubiera, Gert Steegmans, Sam Bewley, and Jason McCartney
  5. The riders on the squad were Tiago Machado, Janez Brajkovič, Matthew Busche, Haimar Zubeldia, José Luis Rubiera, Sérgio Paulinho, Markel Irizar, and Gert Steegmans
  6. The riders on the squad were Andreas Klöden, Lance Armstrong, Sam Bewley, Daryl Impey, Tiago Machado, Ivan Rovny, Grégory Rast, and Bjørn Selander
  7. The riders on the squad were Fumiyuki Beppu, Matthew Busche, Daryl Impey, Markel Irizar, Tiago Machado, Ivan Rovny, José Luis Rubiera, and Ben Hermans
  8. The riders on the squad were Lance Armstrong, Janez Brajkovič, Chris Horner, Andreas Klöden, Levi Leipheimer, Dimitry Muravyev, Sérgio Paulinho, Yaroslav Popovych, and Grégory Rast
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References
  1. Greg Johnson (2010-01-17). "Bruyneel: RadioShack very motivated for Down Under success". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 19 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  2. Greg Johnson and Les Clarke (2010-01-19). "Greipel grabs number one in Tanunda". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 2010-01-22. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
  3. Greg Johnson (2010-01-24). "Bruyneel happy despite leaving Tour Down Under empty handed". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 27 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  4. Cycling News (2010-02-20). "Rosseler rolls to solo stage win". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 22 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
  5. Stephen Farrand (2010-02-21). "Contador wins the Volta ao Algarve". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 22 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
  6. Peter Cossins (2010-06-14). "RadioShack miss out on Vuelta a España invite". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 15 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
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